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Each year thousands more subscribers take TIME with them on their vacations. Their changes of address plot some of the more interesting recreation habits of the country, reports Ed King, our subscription service general manager. Already some of our peripatetic readers are heading across the country to favorite vacation spots, but most are simply planning to shift northward or waterward away from hot cities and their suburban rims. Even West Coasters, who show less yen to move with the seasons than anybody else, are scheduling some trips into the Pacific Northwest. In the East, Cape Cod remains the traditional favorite...
Family Circle (weekdays 3 p.m., ABC) is a collection of songs, verse, interviews and chatter, propelled through the wasteland of daytime radio by a glib and determinedly jolly M.C. named Walter Kiernan. Typical guest: Actress Sarah Churchill, who was allowed to tell the plot of her current Broadway show, Gramercy Ghost. In exchange, Kiernan asked how her father, Winston Churchill, felt about her becoming an actress ("he thought it was a whim...
...plot, which barely holds its franchise in the time left by 27 songs and operatic excerpts, draws on Caruso's life for whatever can feed the Hollywood formula, ignores or twists whatever does not. Thus it skips a longtime love affair that gave the real Caruso two illegitimate children, skimps on colorful details of his florid personality, compresses his tragic physical decline and death (of peritonitis, in Naples) into a sudden collapse on the stage of Manhattan...
Angelo is most appealing in his simplicity--his innocent tugging at Matteo's pants, his naive washing every five minutes to make himself as light as the other boys. He would not have been so convincing, nor the plot so moving, if the acting and directing had been anything less then magnificent...
Miss Valtz shows a decided talent for writing dialogue, especially of a witty nature, but her ability to plot situations through which convincing characters move has yet to be developed. The theme seems to concern itself with the inner problems of a young man who has lost his faith and turned to automobile racing as a complete involvement in which he can both lose himself and find himself at the same time. This seems to involve no conflict, though I might be wrong, as there also seems to be an attempt at resolution at the end. The plot fails...